There is an old observation that a nation’s character is best read not in what it celebrates but in who it leaves behind. India’sRead More »India’s Majoritarian Project Faces Global Scrutiny

  Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” suggests that to subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Turkey seems to be takingRead More »Turkey’s Syria Strategy: Win Without War

By Adam Reed The strategic calculus behind Washington’s military posture in the Middle East is undergoing a significant transformation. Following extensive damage to fixed basesRead More »Washington’s New Middle East Strategy

By Adam Reed The ongoing military confrontation with Iran has pushed Washington into a strategic dead end that echoes the darkest days of the IraqRead More »The Iran Quagmire: Washington’s Strategic Dead End

By Ahan S. Prakash When B.R. Ambedkar wrote India’s constitution, he warned that political democracy cannot survive without social democracy underneath it. That line feelsRead More »USCIRF Report: India’s Minorities Under Threat

By Daniel Frost The midnight bombardment of the long dormant Abu Duhur military airbase in northern Syria marked a genuinely chilling escalation in regional friction.Read More »Israel Hit Syria. Türkiye Was the Target.

  Five years after marching back into Kabul, the Taliban has managed something strange. Governance through pure stagnation. Back in August 2021, the world gotRead More »Five Years of Taliban Failure

  By Daniel Frost The idea that Hamas has been entirely wiped off the map makes for a convenient political talking point, but it fallsRead More »Hamas: You Can’t Bomb an Ideology Away

Iran is undoubtedly moving into a new chapter of its post 1979 history, but calling it a third republic misses the real story here. TheRead More »Iran After Khamenei

The pattern repeats every election cycle. A candidate like Abdul El Sayed in Michigan, or Zohran Mamdani in New York, gets on the ballot, andRead More »Anti-Muslim Smears in U.S. Politics

There’s an old saying that you can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your neighbors. India and Pakistan seem determined to test just howRead More »India-Pakistan: A Dangerous Peace Without Dialogue

Washington is discovering the hard way that shuttle diplomacy can’t force an end to the war in Ukraine just by leaning on the immediate combatants.Read More »Washington’s Ukraine Strategy Has a Missing Piece